A methodology for calculating the passenger comfort benefits of railway travel

Abstract

A comfortable environment in railway passenger coaches can be regarded as a resource for social consumption during the transport process. Railway passenger comfort benefits (RPCBs) can be regarded as a special generalized cost. In this paper, we select a series of objective and subjective indexes to formulate a quantitative method of calculating the RPCB with considering ticket fares. This method includes three steps: make the initial data dimensionless, calculate the weight of each index, and finally calculate the RPCBs. The proposed method was validated with the data collected from two types of trains: G13 from Beijing South to Shanghai Hongqiao and T109 from Beijing to Shanghai. Also, questionnaire survey was conducted in both trains. After data processing, the results show that there is a linear relationship between the RPCB and ticket fare with a correlation coefficient of 0.9616.

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Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People’s Republic of China, National Development and Reform Commission of People’s Republic of China, Ministry of Railways of People’s Republic of China (2012) Railway construction project economic evaluation methods and parameters. Beijing. China Planning Press. (
in Chinese)